ParaView Use Cases

Use Case 1

Description: Analyst first generates a movie to obtain a visual understanding of model displacements. This movie will typically use either time-based model displacements or contour lines. Once he has a general overview of the structural displacements, Bruce will then delve deeper into the model to obtain quantitative measurements. These measurements are obtained using queries and plots of stress, strain, and displacement. A final animation is then generated to display specific items of interest in the analysis.

Extracted requirements:

1. Handle both structured 3D.
2. Color the mesh by scalar variables including derived variables.
3. Compute new variables from output variables.
4. Produce a plane clip through a 3D mesh.
5. Have the profile plots update automatically when you change time step.
6. Provide linear plotter axes and labeled curve legends in different lines styles and colors.
7. Provide linear color palettes with color legends which are user adjustable in both location and size.
8. Provide text annotations including time annotations.
9. Be able to automatically deal with byte order differences in different data formats.
10. Be able to work with data which resides on a remote platform like White without having to move it.
11. Be able to work effectively with big data.
12. Be able to generate animations which can be played without reformatting on a desktop.
13. Provide an integrated movie tool for displaying these animations on a desktop or a multi-panel display wall.
14. Provide a geometry display tool for displaying interactive flipbook animations on a desktop or multi-panel display wall.